MD+DI regularly produce webinars and online courses on a wide variety of topics important to medical device professionals. Check back regularly for upcoming webinars and online courses as well as watching the on demand versions listed below.

Upcoming Webinars and Online Courses

Many of today’s advanced medical technologies rely on surface modification to enhance electrical properties, alter physical properties (e.g., coefficient of friction, strength, etc.), and/or provide chemical, moisture and fluid barrier properties. This webinar will discuss the chemistry and use of Parylene coatings and how they differentiate themselves across the medical market. Also, a variety of current and future Parylene applications will be discussed, including the coating’s use in neurostimulation, infusion and electrosurgical technologies.

This webinar will address the details surrounding the new ISO 80369 standards that are affecting medical device manufacturers. The expert in this webinar will outline what ISO 80369 standards are, how they will affect the industry, and when the standards will come into effect.

Automation is becoming a key component of the industry and should be a heavily weighted factor in selecting vendor partners. Whether utilizing a highly automated cell complete with 8-axis robots and vision inspection capabilities, or a simple solution through fixturing or palletization, automation provides the following key benefits: higher throughput, higher utilization rates, reduction in labor costs, reduction of opportunity costs and process repeatability and consistency.

Featured Webinars and Online Courses

This three day course will incorporate the new US FDA guidance on biocompatibility into the three main steps in developing a Biological Safety Evaluation (BSE): Biological Evaluation Plan (BEP), Testing Options, and Biological Evaluation Report (BER). Composed of three one-hour presentations followed by Q&A sessions, the course will cover each step in developing a BSE in detail. This course will provide insight into regulatory expectations when it comes to evaluating device safety.

Archived Webinars and Online Courses

This course will discuss the foundations of risk and the application of risk management to medical devices before and after market launch. Composed of three one-hour lectures followed by Q&A sessions, the course will cover the evolution of our modern concept of risk and will provide practical guidance on how to minimize risk throughout the product development cycle. The class also will provide a basic introduction to risk management and inductive and deductive risk analysis tools.

The course will be led by G.M. Samaras, a biomedical scientist/engineer in private practice (Pueblo, CO) since 1996. Trained as an electrical engineer, Samaras is a biomedical engineer with doctorates in physiology and industrial engineering. He has worked at the FDA/CDRH as a reviewer and a manager. He was a medical school and engineering graduate school professor, and founded a biomedical engineering product development firm that he ran for a decade.

This is a practical crash course on 21 CFR 820 and EN ISO 13485:2012, as well as the key focal points for each element and subpart. Whether you're a startup building a Quality Management System (QMS) for the first time or a Fortune 100 medtech company looking for specific help in a QMS area, learn insider tricks from St. Cloud State University Adjunct Professor and top 40 Under 40 consultant David Amor, an expert who has led multiple QMS implementation and remediation projects for large companies and startups alike. This course focuses on the stuff you can't Google and will take a boot-camp approach to implementing and solving many common QMS obstacles.

In this presentation from maxon motor, we will review the three things you need to understand when selecting a DC motor drive system. Discover ways to carefully design your application before building it and understand the key specifications of brushed and brushless DC motors, gearheads and encoders.

Thor Rollins, biocompatibility expert with Nelson Labs, will provide insights on biocompatibility testing and where the ISO/TC-194 working group plans to take the ISO 10993 standard in the future, and Allison Komiyama, regulatory consultant with AcKnowledge Regulatory Strategies, will break down the FDA’s recently released “A-list” guidance documents and discuss how recommendations may impact medical device manufacturers.